To investigate the association between firearm sales and alcohol sales and the number of youth homicides, annual handgun sales data were collected from the California Department of Justice, yearly beer... read more >

Using data from the California Health Interview Survey, this article describes the prevalence of hunting and target shooting among California adolescents (ages 12-17 years). Twenty-two percent reported... read more >

The authors analyzed data provided by 5,657 adolescents (12-17 years old) in a supplement to the 2001 California Health Interview Survey. Adolescents were grouped by those who said that they had a handgun... read more >

The author provided a synopsis of the characteristics and patterns of weapon use in intimate partner violence in order to help readers better understand the nature of the problem, obtain knowledge that... read more >

Using data from one of the busiest restraining order clinics in the U.S., the authors examined 1,354 applicants’ descriptions of abuse. Most (89.2%) applicants were issued a restraining order. A total... read more >

The authors compared high school students’ attitudes about firearm policies with those of adults using information from the Hamilton Youth and Guns Poll, a national survey of high school students on their... read more >

The authors examined the willingness of firearm dealers to sell to straw purchasers (i.e. when a handgun is being purchased for another person), Out of 120 dealers, most were willing to sell a handgun... read more >

In this letter to the editor, the authors report on their use of survey data from the 1993 National Mortality Followback Survey (NMFS) to assess if the risk of homicide in one’s home was associated with... read more >